Comparing Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

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The three stories that I will be contrasting are Gawain and the Green Knight, Morte D’ Arthur and How the Round Table Began. The style, plot, and characters of these three stories are vastly different. For example, Sir Gawain changes who he is as a person throughout the three stories. The style of these stories changes dramatically if you look at the difficultly of the styles. Even the plot within the stories have changed drastically.

The style of writing is Middle English, simplified by mass amounts so we can make sense of it now. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the style of writing is simple and easy to read. It does not go into the depth that Morte D’ Arthur goes into. The time that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was wrote in, the most common style of writing you would find would be alliterative poetry. Morte D’ Arthur is the hardest story to read out of the three. It goes into depth with everything, it has been simplified, but yet it has the difficultness that a completely simplified story wouldn’t have. How the Round Table Began is the easiest story to read out of the three stories. The story does not have any depth nor does it have a style of writing that takes much thought on what you’re reading.
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There is a lot of twists and turns in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight compared to How the Round Table Began. The twists and turns are not to insane with trying understood the story in it’s all. Morte D’ Arthur is the most challenging story out of the trio because it has the most developed plot with the absurd amount of detail within the twists and turn. How the Round Table Began is hands down, the easiest to read. Overall, it has the easiest language, easiest plot, and it is completely straightforward with the few major details that it has within the

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